The first English dictionary of military terms was published anonymously in 1702 under the title A Military Dictionary. However, one glossary of this nature had already been attached to Robert Barret’s (Anon. 1702)The Theorike and Practike of Moderne Warres in 1598: ‘A Table, shewing the signification of sundry forraine words, vsed in these discourses’. Barret had fought in many battles in Europe, where English soldiers came into contact with comrades-in-arms from other countries. Hence, Barret’s glossary constitutes a first-hand source of information on the loanwords used in English to refer to technological and strategic novelties on the field of military science at the time. This article (i) provides a first analysis of Barret’s glossary; (ii) confirms that Barret’s professional expertise as a soldier contributed to more complete and informative definitions than the ones in contemporary general dictionaries; (iii) compares the source languages Barret assigned to the entries in his glossary with the source languages specified in contemporary lexicographical works and in the Oxford English Dictionary; and (iv) confirms the relevance of Barret’s glossary as a testimony to the military jargon incorporated into English from different languages during the sixteenth century. Finally, a close comparison of the definitions of the same entries in Barret’s glossary and Florio’s A Worlde of Wordes (1598) has revealed Florio’s indebtedness to Barret’s military glossary.

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“我们现在在战争中使用的大多数术语都源自陌生人”：罗伯特·巴雷特 (Robert Barret) 在《现代战争的理论与实践》(1598) 中的军事术语表

第一本英语军事术语词典于 1702 年匿名出版，书名为《军事词典》。然而，罗伯特·巴雷特 (Robert Barret)（匿名，1702 年）1598 年出版的《现代战争的理论与实践》中已经附有一个此类性质的术语表：“一张表格，显示了这些话语中各种未雨绸缪词的含义”。巴雷特曾在欧洲参加过许多战役，英国士兵在那里与其他国家的战友进行了接触。因此，巴雷特的词汇表构成了英语借词的第一手信息来源，这些借词指的是当时军事科学领域的技术和战略新颖性。本文 (i) 对 Barret 的词汇表进行了初步分析；(ii) 确认巴雷特作为一名士兵的专业知识有助于提供比当代普通词典中的定义更完整、信息更丰富的定义；(iii) 将巴雷特分配给其术语表中条目的源语言与当代词典编纂著作和《牛津英语词典》中指定的源语言进行比较；(iv) 证实了巴雷特术语表的相关性，作为十六世纪期间从不同语言融入英语的军事术语的证明。最后，对巴雷特的术语表和弗洛里奥的《语言世界》（1598）中相同条目的定义进行仔细比较，揭示了弗洛里奥对巴雷特军事术语表的借鉴。